Rebecca Wright
@rebwright.bsky.social
Energy historian based at Northumbria University, working on histories of heat and fuel poverty in 20th Century Britain. PI of the Wellcome CDA "Carbon Bodies". NEW BOOK, "Moral Energy in America" (JHUP). https://shorturl.at/9tFaV
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It's Electric Wind publication day!💨
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It's Electric Wind publication day!💨
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Tune in next Wednesday, 12-45 to 14:00 @lshtmhistory to hear some of our research on how the policy framing and politics of cold homes has changed over time.
Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below:
Location: Online.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
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Location: Online.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
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Health or energy crisis? The politics of framing hypothermia | LSHTM
This presentation explores the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain, examining how these were increasingly framed as an ‘energy-management’ issue. Its target
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October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Tune in next Wednesday, 12-45 to 14:00 @lshtmhistory to hear some of our research on how the policy framing and politics of cold homes has changed over time.
A great account here of the wonderful #energlives workshop I was lucky enough to attend in May, on energy, the senses, and emotion. #energyhistory
in May, Energy Lives! organised its first workshop exploring how to study senses, emotions and energy.
Read more about it in this conversation written by @nathaliebergame.bsky.social and Bue Juul Poulsgaard ⤵
#energylives #energyhistory #nordforsk
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Read more about it in this conversation written by @nathaliebergame.bsky.social and Bue Juul Poulsgaard ⤵
#energylives #energyhistory #nordforsk
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Energy, its infrastructures and the everyday: challenges of sensing the intangible
On 19 and 20 May 2025, the Energy Lives! project held its first two-day workshop exploring how we can study senses and emotions in historical energy transitions. Bue Juul Poulsgaard and Nathalie Berga...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A great account here of the wonderful #energlives workshop I was lucky enough to attend in May, on energy, the senses, and emotion. #energyhistory
Still time to register for the DOUBLE book event today, GMT 15:00. Come hear about “Moral Energy” and @parhee.bsky.social wonderful “Natural Attachments”, hosted by @elsadevienne.bsky.social and GreenBASS. Lots of shared themes to discuss. Register here tinyurl.com/22j3t7dz #environhist #energyhist
DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH: Energy for What? Ideas and Ideologies in US environmental history - British Association for American Studies
Join us on zoom on Thursday 26 June 2025, 3-4pm for a conversation with the authors of two exciting new books in US environmental history: Dr Rebecca K. Wright (Northumbria) author of Moral Energy i...
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June 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Still time to register for the DOUBLE book event today, GMT 15:00. Come hear about “Moral Energy” and @parhee.bsky.social wonderful “Natural Attachments”, hosted by @elsadevienne.bsky.social and GreenBASS. Lots of shared themes to discuss. Register here tinyurl.com/22j3t7dz #environhist #energyhist
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Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Environmental historians of the US: don't miss this *DOUBLE book launch* celebrating recent publications in the field.
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
June 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Friends! We would be so excited to see you for our DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. I will be in the UK in spirit struggling through the Midwestern heat at 9 am (CDT), but invigorated by the brilliant @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Environmental historians of the US: don't miss this *DOUBLE book launch* celebrating recent publications in the field.
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
June 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Environmental historians of the US: don't miss this *DOUBLE book launch* celebrating recent publications in the field.
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
This is happening this Thursday 3pm BST; 10am EDT; 7am PDT on zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@rebwright.bsky.social @parhee.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social please rt🙏
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SAND RUSH has won a prize 😃🏖️!
Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸!
This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜
Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸!
This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
SAND RUSH has won a prize 😃🏖️!
Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸!
This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜
Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸!
This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜
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@rebwright.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social and I would love for any and all of you to join us for a chat on the place of ideas in 20th century US #envhist and more!
Just two weeks until this fantastic *double* book launch event, featuring two brilliant authors in US environmental history - Pollyanna Rhee & Rebecca K. Wright. See poster for details and the link below to register. 📚
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Thursday 26th June, Zoom
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Thursday 26th June, Zoom
June 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
@rebwright.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social and I would love for any and all of you to join us for a chat on the place of ideas in 20th century US #envhist and more!
I really can’t wait for this. So excited to talk about ideas, American studies, and environmental history with @parhee.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social .
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I really can’t wait for this. So excited to talk about ideas, American studies, and environmental history with @parhee.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social .
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✅ Do you teach about the US & the environment?
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
Green BAAS Audit on Environmental Teaching in British American Studies
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
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June 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
✅ Do you teach about the US & the environment?
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
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Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
June 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
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We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.
May 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.
Such a great few days talking about emotion, sensation, and energy with all the brilliant people on the #energylives project at Chalmers, Gothenburg. The hydrogen dome definitely wins the prize for coolest workshop venue yet.
May 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Such a great few days talking about emotion, sensation, and energy with all the brilliant people on the #energylives project at Chalmers, Gothenburg. The hydrogen dome definitely wins the prize for coolest workshop venue yet.
Can’t wait for this!
⏰ Mark your calendar Am studies and #envhist folks!
📅 On Thursday 26 June 3-4pm GMT, GREEN BAAS is hosting a conversation with the authors of 2 new books on the US &the evnt @rebwright.bsky.social & @parhee.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 On Thursday 26 June 3-4pm GMT, GREEN BAAS is hosting a conversation with the authors of 2 new books on the US &the evnt @rebwright.bsky.social & @parhee.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Can’t wait for this!
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A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago'
May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)
Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)
Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
May 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago'
May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)
Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)
Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
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It's my actual pub day! If you want to hear me talk about environmentalism v. environmental justice, Santa Barbara, neighborhood associations, and "Abundance," tune in to my New Books in Environmental Studies episode below!
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Pollyanna Rhee,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Environmental Studies · 05/13/2025 · 45m
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May 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's my actual pub day! If you want to hear me talk about environmentalism v. environmental justice, Santa Barbara, neighborhood associations, and "Abundance," tune in to my New Books in Environmental Studies episode below!
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Tune in on Monday 12 May, at 4pm CET to hear more about “Moral Energy” at the Greenhouse book series @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social. I will be talking about why the language of energy matters, and what an energy ethics could be. Come ask me hard questions. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Online book talk: Wright, Moral Energy in America – The Greenhouse
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May 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tune in on Monday 12 May, at 4pm CET to hear more about “Moral Energy” at the Greenhouse book series @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social. I will be talking about why the language of energy matters, and what an energy ethics could be. Come ask me hard questions. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
So looking forward to this.
We are looking forward to talking with Rebecca Wright about Moral Energy in America on May 12th.
Mark your calendar and join us for the live discussion:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Mark your calendar and join us for the live discussion:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
April 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So looking forward to this.
It’s finally out! Here is the code (HTWN) for a 30% discount if you want to read more. shorturl.at/RHGQd
Moral Energy in America
From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb
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April 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s finally out! Here is the code (HTWN) for a 30% discount if you want to read more. shorturl.at/RHGQd
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"Moral Energy in America" by @rebwright.bsky.social explores how a distinctly American way of thinking about energy shaped US culture, society, and politics throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Moral Energy in America" by @rebwright.bsky.social explores how a distinctly American way of thinking about energy shaped US culture, society, and politics throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Loved watching this from the hotel room (almost) next door!
I had so much fun with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me talking about my book especially with their wonderful questions and appearances by the excellent @elsadevienne.bsky.social and @rebwright.bsky.social among others! 🌱❤️
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Behind the scenes photo of today’s online #envhum book talk with @parhee.bsky.social! We do them from home, squeezed in between work and dinner.
April 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Loved watching this from the hotel room (almost) next door!
Such a treat to be in the US days before P-day, thanks to @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social and CEGU. Not only was I lucky to present at the most generative workshop, but walking round Chicago, and experiencing its space, scale, and ahem “energy” reminds me of why I started this project. shorturl.at/Nd7oh
Moral Energy in America
From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb
shorturl.at
April 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Such a treat to be in the US days before P-day, thanks to @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social and CEGU. Not only was I lucky to present at the most generative workshop, but walking round Chicago, and experiencing its space, scale, and ahem “energy” reminds me of why I started this project. shorturl.at/Nd7oh
Really looking forward to this!
We have a @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk lined with Rebecca on 12 May!
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April 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Really looking forward to this!
Look what has just arrived in the post. In slight disbelief that I can finally hold it. Not long till publication day now. Out on the 29th of April! Eeek… #EnvHist #energyhist shorturl.at/xlMad
April 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Look what has just arrived in the post. In slight disbelief that I can finally hold it. Not long till publication day now. Out on the 29th of April! Eeek… #EnvHist #energyhist shorturl.at/xlMad
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Would you like to spend a few months in Edinburgh in 2025-26 working with our brilliant Environmental Humanities community and, ahem, enjoying the Scottish weather? The application portal for EEHN Visiting Research Fellowships is now open.
We host visiting researchers for fellowships of 2-4 months each year at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. Details here, deadline 28 Feb: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships | IASH
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January 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Would you like to spend a few months in Edinburgh in 2025-26 working with our brilliant Environmental Humanities community and, ahem, enjoying the Scottish weather? The application portal for EEHN Visiting Research Fellowships is now open.